Stories
Reach every student, including ELLs and reluctant readers
Our diverse library builds language comprehension across a wide range of topics and themes—one story at a time.
Language comprehension must include strong content knowledge.
Gough and Tunmer, Simple View of Reading
Storybooks build content knowledge – including science & social studies
- Stories are especially crafted to be both interesting and accessible in order to engage all learners, including language learners or reluctant readers.
- Captivating images on each page created by our artists and professional photographers aid comprehension and recall.
- Our collection is carefully curated to include all Dolch and high-frequency words.
Extra help for language learners and reluctant readers
- All early readers benefit by on-demand word-by-word audio support. This allows students to discover the sounds of the words on their own.
- Embedded audio scaffolds help learners develop sound-word-meaning connections - the basis of reading comprehension.
- Language Learners can also switch to their home language at any time to deepen comprehension and accelerate English language acquisition.
Practice in all language modalities: listening, reading, speaking, writing
- Listening: students respond to audio prompts that capture and report listening comprehension.
- Reading: students complete cloze questions and then read a passage aloud for oral fluency.
- Speaking: students record retelling of the story and respond to depth-of-knowledge questions.
- Writing: students practice writing online and off- screen with activities that encourage creativity.
Develop core vocabulary with interactive Wordbooks
- Wordbooks are especially helpful for language learners who can transfer knowledge, but need to quickly develop everyday vocabulary in English.
- All sentences are in the present tense to eliminate complex sentence structures that can impede comprehension.
- Collectively, our Wordbooks cover 40 of the most common verbs and 40 common adjectives – in addition to more than 300 nouns to start constructing sentences.
Extend learning with games and printable resources
- Motivate students with points as they work through each story and comprehension exercise, covering all modalities.
- Differentiate instruction with printable resources that allow students to practice what they’ve learned and even showcase their creative talents!
- Build confidence with games that accompany every story as students continue to to reinforce word-sound relationships and construct sentences.
